Fun for “Earthlings” - Looking for life in a MARS analogue site: An AMASE'ing experience.

The NASA and ESA 'Search for life' Mars missions scheduled for the next decade require stringent sampling and analysis protocols to recognise possible biosignatures. I will describe testing in the extreme environment of the Arctic. I will also show how we have developed and applied field-based zero-contamination sampling.  We have used spectral and microbiological approaches for identifying mineral composition and low-level chemical biosignatures for use in future robotic or human planetary missions.